Hamid Raja Shalah

Hamid Raja Shalah al-Tikriti (1950-) was the Air Marshal of Ba'athist Iraq who served as commander-in-chief of the Iraqi Air Force from the mid-1990s until 2003.

Biography
Hamid Raja Shalah al-Tikriti was born in 1950 in Baiji, Saladin Governorate, Kingdom of Iraq to a Sunni Muslim Arab family, and he served as a pilot in the Iraqi Air Force. During the Iran-Iraq War, he was in charge of the Kirkuk air base and, in the mid-1990s, Saddam Hussein appointed Shalah as the commander-in-chief of the air force. He was captured on 14 June 2003 by the United States during the Iraq War.